MTR door queuing strategies

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4_0qFTBhUY
This is a great training session on how you can get in.

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Its not locals with discourtesy. I had a gweilo (Russian or possibly based on his accent) intentionally and rudely block my entrance years ago when he could have been courteous and move. I pushed him and squeezed in anyway. To teach the f'er a lesson I shoved him out the door just as they were about to close and I went on my way. His face turned into a red peach and he started running after the train.

[Sith]

The FF'ing arrows in HK are so shit.

They basically encourage selfish HKers (of which there are many) to stand inside the span of the doors, restricting the flow out of the train to a single file, and the FF'ing useless MTR platform staff just allow this charade to go on, day in day out, year after year.

Singapore is so much smarter in how they handle this. I say 'smart', but really it's obvious to anyone but the most basic of morons about what needs be done. So why is it the Chinese people who learn English as a first language are so much more intelligent than those that don't?


As for strategies in HK, whilst the MTR continues to be so dumb and so many HK'ers continue to be such selfish gits, the only properly effective way is to have 1 person on either side of the door prepared to wait until those exiting have gotten off.

No matter how hard I train HK people to push back against the rude one's trying to push onto the train there's another 7,695,000 who just aim at the polite ones rather than dealing with the twats.

I have also grabbed a few by the scruff of the neck in years gone by.

These days I mostly just tell those who stand directly in front of the doors (MTR or lift) to stand to the side.

Another annoying thing about the MTR. Who ever designed the flow of people had either a very bad day or is too stupid.
There are stations where for example the escalator goes up on the right and down on the left and then there is a one way path to walk to the exit where you have to cross the people going the opposite direction

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OMG, John Lennon is right on this one. Should have been its not "just" locals.

[hannah01]

Most "rule breakers" are elderly Chinese ladies and gents. I don't know if it's because they can't see the lines of arrows drawn for direction,or they simply don't understand it, or if it's because they think it's their "privilege" to not follow those rules by the virtue of being senior citizens.

[AsianXpat0]

Mostly middle-aged ladies in my own experience.

[GentleGeorge]

Most "rule breakers" are elderly Chinese ladies and gents. I don't know if it's because they can't see the lines of arrows drawn for direction,or they simply don't understand it, or if it's because they think it's their "privilege" to not follow those rules by the virtue of being senior citizens.

It's because they are desperately hoping to get the last seat

[jayinhongkong]

Growing up in HK there was no kind of order for buses or the MTR: it was everyone for themselves. Those little old ladies think they're above the law.

[hannah01]

It's because they are desperately hoping to get the last seat

In that case, I sympathize with them a little bit because many people hesitate to vacate their seats for the elders. Many times, I've seen a very fragile looking old lady (or a man) hunched down low in their back, with only a stick for a support, and yet none stand up and offer their seats. In my nine years of stay in Hong Kong, I've hardly ever taken a seat in the mtr (unless I'm feeling sick) so that those gray hairs can sit down comfortably.

[Morrison]

What is OP’s strategy against seat jumpers on MTR ?